VSU Music Students Embrace Chamber Style of Playing

VALDOSTA — Valdosta State University will host a
Chamber Winds performance at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 15, in Whitehead
Auditorium. The concert is open to the public and free of charge.

“The program will have great variety,” said Joe H. Brashier,
director of bands at VSU and professor of music. “The music tends to be on the
traditional side in terms of harmony, melody, and structure. The audience
should find it relaxing to listen to and may even catch their feet tapping to
the music.”

Conducted by Brashier, the 21-member Chamber Winds is a
premier group open to all university students through competitive auditions
only. It stresses a one-player-per-part concept and performs literature of the
highest level.

“The students have enthusiastically embraced the chamber
music approach this semester,” he said. “It really stretches the younger
performers, but they all seem to enjoy developing their skills in this medium.”

The Chamber Winds will perform six works. The evening
concert will conclude with Caroline Hatchett, a graduate student studying
voice, reciting a series of poems by Edith Sitwell over instrumental
accompaniment composed by William Walton, also known as “Façade: An
Entertainment.”

Whitehead Auditorium is located on the first floor of VSU’s
Fine Arts Building, on the corner of Brookwood Drive and Oak Street.